Marshall Islands

Low academic results in Marshall Islands public schools have led to a major change in the country's public school teaching strategy, announced at the Pacific Educational Conference in Majuro last week.

Fisheries officials in Marshall Islands are calling for profits to be reinvested into the fisheries sector, amid an increase in takings with profits jumping from around $3-4 million a year to around $20 million this year.

With the Pacific facing many serious development issues, Marshall Islands journalist Giff Johnson has published a book called 'Idyllic No More: Pacific Island Climate, Corruption and Development Dilemmas'.

The annual Pacific Power Association meeting starts in Marshall Islands today, with 150 representatives from Pacific island utilities and the companies that supply them gathering in the capital Majuro.

The Marshall Islands annual parliament Public Accounts Committee hearings last week pointed a spotlight on audit findings, saying there have been many instances of poor accountability and violations of law in government ministries and agencies.

A World War II aircraft carrier which went through the war in the Pacific and was used as a target during nuclear bomb tests has been found in an "amazingly intact" condition at the bottom of the ocean.

Pacific Fishing nations will now be getting a better daily rate for the tuna caught in their waters.At a meeting in Marshall Islands, the eight partners to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) that control over 50 per cent of the global supply of skipjack tuna have told disgruntled nations such as the United States that they will have to pay the increase of $US6,000 to $8,0000 per day starting in January.